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Lead the Future of ERP Migrations – Join Our Centre of Excellence

Are you passionate about the power of the cloud? Are you ready to help Australia's public sector unlock greater efficiency and productivity through smarter ERP migrations?

Join SAP and lead a bold new initiative that’s redefining how key government agencies move to the cloud.

With the creation of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Federal Australian Agencies we’re building a high-performance team to guide major agencies through the how of ERP migration — with proven strategy, expert delivery, and scalable, lasting impact.

Initially, an 18-month transformation program, this high-profile, strategic initiative will be the successful candidate’s initial assignment, before transitioning into the broader Customer Success and Delivery area to extend the best practices and knowledge gained there.

This is your chance to set new industry benchmarks and drive real transformation where it matters most.

About the Role:

This is an authoritative expert consulting role, focused on providing integrated technical risk assurance necessary for customers moving to a SAP Cloud option, and champions through leadership breakthrough innovations that lead to competitive advantage to SAP. The Architect's expertise lies in deep technical advisory, moving beyond design to provide definitive technical quantification of risk and ensuring architectural viability against non-negotiable compliance standards. The Architect works closely in hand with the Expert Cloud Engagement Executive to ensure the technical solution underpins the strategic risk posture defined at the executive level and the policy frameworks established by the Principal Executive, presenting a unified, certifiable architectural baseline.

Job Responsibilities:

Excellent facilitation and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to effectively engage with executive stakeholders, partners, and SAP account teams. Other key competencies of this role include the ability to:

• Provide deep technical consulting advisory on high-level customer engagements, quantifying the residual risk inherent in different cloud tenancy options for the customer’s CISO.

• Develop and validate the Architectural Modelling of the customer's end-state technical architecture, ensuring explicit confirmation of interoperability and security between SAP and non-SAP elements.

• Articulate customer Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) that reflect risk-mitigating policy and legal requirements of cloud, ensuring these NFRs are translated into auditable technical configurations.

• Collaborate with the Principal Cloud Engagement to formalise the technical risk documentation into auditable policy statements suitable for legal and procurement review.

• Execute the technical component of the Governed On-Ramp handover by providing the certified Architectural Topology and detailed security boundary definitions to the downstream SAP Solution Architect.

• Work collaboratively with internal SAP teams addressing national security risk mitigation, including GS2, to ensure technical designs adhere to SAP's protocols for handling sensitive and classified information.

• Consult on Integration Architecture and provide integration architecture consulting and inputs into Agency Advisory workshops and well as the agency specific guidebooks.

• Consult on migration options and provide migration consulting and inputs into Agency Advisory workshops and well as the agency specific guidebooks.

On a Continuous Basis:

• Maintain awareness of the CS&D strategy in terms of transformation initiatives, methodology, tools, delivery strategy and promote the understanding and adoption within the Project or Program.

• Lead by example, mentor and coach other team members.

• Maintain up-to-date records of mandatory training.

• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of SAP solutions and of the CS&D business processes and functions.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Expertise, ideally demonstrated for at least 5 years across consulting on architecture featuring primarily sovereign computing and cloud concepts, cyber security policy, and large-scale enterprise integration.

• Mandatory deep working comprehension and practical experience applying Australian Government ISM/PSPF controls and their auditable implementation within hyperscale cloud platforms and how this overlays SAP cloud solutions.

• Mandatory deep working comprehension and practical experience working across SAP Enterprise Cloud solutions and technical trajectory.

• Deep appreciation for working with technical and policy requirements addressing sovereign cloud computing requirements of customers.

• Proven ability to work across internal SAP Lines of Business articulating customer Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) that reflect risk-mitigating sovereign policy and legal requirements of cloud.

Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

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Requisition ID: 435536 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 50% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: